SOMERSET — From budget trends to transportation and state aid, from administrative expenses to Somerset’s assessments, a first-time Somerset Berkley Regional School District “2013-2014 Annual Report” will be mailed this week to homes in Somerset and Berkley.

At a brief meeting Tuesday night, the regional committee, with newly elected committee member Stephanie Field, voted 4-1 to spend between $3,300 and $4,000 from its office supplies account to mail out the report.

The difference in costs depends upon color printing options. Chairman Richard Peirce was the lone member opposed.

“The cost does concern me,” Peirce said.

On Monday night, Peirce and his committee will need to present the nearly $8.26 million assessment for Somerset voters to pay the school district as its share of operational and capital expenses.

Peirce seemed mindful of that, while the committee majority and Treasurer Lindsey Albernaz, who assembled the six-page report, advocated distributing the report.

They expect Somerset residents to have it by Friday or Saturday, and Berkley shortly afterward.

“If you want to have the best process and do it every year, if you’re going to do it the right way, this is the right way,” Albernaz said when Peirce questioned the costs.

She said the long-term priority should trump the immediate budget concerns.

Committee member Julie Gagliardi — who will help make the fiscal 2015 budget presentation at the annual Town Meeting — said an annual report is required from regional school districts.

She summarized eight “points made in the report, which features a series of graphs from fiscal 2011 — when the district formed — through fiscal 2015. They include changing assessments going down in Somerset and up in Berkley.

“Since fiscal 2012, Somerset’s operating assessment for the regional high school has been reduced by over $800,000, or 10 percent, in three years,” one fact says.

The next fact says Berkley’s operations costs have increased $350,000 during that period. “However, these annual increases have been lower than what was originally projected when the Regional Planning Board conducted its study back in 2010,” it said.

Another fact — almost sure to be challenged by Town Meeting voters — says “the regions administrative costs represent 4 cents on the dollar and have remained stable for three years.”

The issue over not sharing administration between the Somerset and regional school districts has elicited questions and controversy.

One of several bar graphs shows Somerset’s enrollment numbers at the regional high school decreasing slightly, from 709 to 698, from this year to fiscal 2015. Berkley’s is projected to tick up, from 276 to 281, next year.

Brief spread sheets are listed to see operating and capital comparisons for this year and next year for the district and both towns.

There’s also a message from interim Superintendent Thomas Lynch, concluding: “We will continue to strive for innovation in the areas of instruction, curriculum and funding. We are excited about what the future holds for the students, faculty, parents and community members of Berkley and Somerset.”

The regional high school administration compiled more than a dozen student and high school highlights during this year.

A brief section lists an update of the $82.3 million regional high school building project, with the new high school slated to open Sept. 2 after an Aug. 25 ribbon-cutting.

It notes the football field open last fall, the track and tennis courts will open to the public June 1 and the “Raiders Remember” event to commemorate the experiences of alumni and staff at the old high school will be held June 28.